Monsoon

Monsoon - What strikes into your head when you hear this 7 lettered word??.. Rain.. rain...more rain..

Yes! The season which is considered to be the most scintillating in each and every year. Dark skies looming above us which gives us a picturesque ambiance, hot samosas, tea, soup and those refreshing liquids to energize our body and most important - Holidays... you'll be jumping with joy when the government announces that schools/colleges are on leave you go berserk.. A game of soccer, rugby and why not, even gully cricket will be an amazing sight to watch.

The roads, inundated with rainwater, you'll feel like wading through those sand-mixed freshwater which obviously gives you a look like rain god has poured in gallons of unhygienic chocolate milk :D :D that's what the texture looks like. I would just like to share a real rainy experience which I went through

5 years ago on the same month, I was in my first year college and it was the time when RWH was done in each and every building of my city and state but to horror, there wasn't any rain :(
But on that fateful day around 1400 hrs, the rain gods decided to fulfill the desires of millions of people in my state as how long can you wait till I show my fury... What begun as a drizzle in the beginning turned into a incessant rainfall in the evening.. Everyone thought that this rain would end in a few hours but it didn't happen so.. It rained.. rained..rained all night and the same rain continued till the next day the sun peeped out...

The result - Roads damaged with hugee potholes, floods at Narrow roads and streets, homes inundated with slush and rainwater, life completely thrown out of gear for a day, power shutdown in many places and most important - many were electrocuted.. :(.. Newton's 3rd law works out at each and every situation. The worst part was that Diwali festival was just a week away and shopping was at full swing in the previous weeks. It rained heavily the next day and almost for nearly 30 hours, the city wasn't spared at all. But one fruitful issue is that the local lakes, ponds, dams were almost full and just more more innings of this rain, the city ll be sunk!.

The next day after this heavy rain, newspapers begun flashing that city has received 42 cms of rain which is a history. I don't want it to be like Cherrapunji in Assam or Mumbai. Mumbai city was affected too in this similar fashion in that following year. We had a whole week of holiday and after Diwali, this topic was the disscussion for a long time.

For chennai, the monsoon season of 2005 was considered to be the best in the previous decade because it had almost solved the water crisis in the city.. But, it was just the beginning and till now, monsoon season has been perfect for half a decade nearly.

Will this be a boon or a bane for TN???... Only time will answer....